if_my (4)

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man4/if_my.4freebsd".)

NAME

my - Myson Technology Ethernet PCI driver

SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:

device my

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf5:

if_my_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The ifconfig driver provides support for various NICs based on the Myson chipset. The Myson chipset is a variant of the DEC Tulip NIC chipset.

The driver will work with almost any MII-compliant PHY, thus failure to positively identify the chip is not a fatal error.

HARDWARE

The ifconfig driver provides support for various NICs based on the Myson chipset. Supported models include:

• Myson MTD800 PCI Fast Ethernet chip
• Myson MTD803 PCI Fast Ethernet chip
• Myson MTD89X PCI Gigabit Ethernet chip

SEE ALSO

altq(4), de(4), netintro(4), pci(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

The ifconfig driver first appeared in Fx 4.6 .

AUTHORS

The ifconfig driver was written by Myson Technology Inc.

This manual page was written by An Hiten M. Pandya Aq hmp@FreeBSD.org .

BUGS

The ifconfig driver does not support Power Management Events (PME).